My luck they would have moved at the wrong instant and I would have put a bullet through both thier heads.... Nice shot on his part tho

great job

Good shooting for sure!! I bet that buck had a small headache though!!

I was shocked that someone would shoot a deer at 10 yards while distracted fighting another buck. This is a great reminder to listen to the full story before making assumptions. Great shooting.

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That is amazing video.  Unbelievable shot.  Thanks for posting that David!

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Great shot, Randy! I appreciated your sportsmanship and your skill.

I just got this link forwarded to me for the fifth or sixth time in an e-mail; glad to be a member on the site.  Even though I watched it when David posted initially posted it in August, I still have to watch it all over agian.  Great post David!

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Good shot...The problem is that you interrupted the process of natural selection and saved two animals that could have provided nutrition for your local food bank. Way to play God and make your own personal life saving decision.  Are you taking a lot of pride in the fact that you are a good shot?  My ten year old daughter could have hit that same shot..what was it, about 6 ft.   In watching that video for the second time, it’s very apparent that you didn’t hit the antlers…the noise of the shot scared them and that’s what caused the “breakoff.”  You know a lot of folks these days complain about the government controlling too much of our lives…well, “Big Brother”  I don’t think you’ve got too much room to talk…maybe next time you’ll take a passive stand and take in all of the natural glory that’s provided to you without screwing it up.

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Charles,

You might disagree with what the guy did, but it was clearly done out of respect for the deer and not out of any desire to play 'god'. 

While I can understand your point (though I think you're wrong), I have a very hard time understanding why you're so angry about it. 

Well David some people just want to be rude I understand making your point but that comment from charles was just rude. Charles if you notice no where does it show that this Randy guy that made the shot posted a comment about his shooting skills.  " My ten year old daughter could have hit that same shot..what was it, about 6 ft." Really man.

Have to agree with the majority here.  How in the world could these deer have been sent to the local food bank without killing both of them? 

New here and got this by email so I'm going to refrain from expressing my 'real' opinion.... 

Whether or not the bullet broke the horn or they broke it themselves is immaterial.  Either way both deer lived (in all probability) to be harvested during the regular season.  Had he not separated the deer the chances are extremely high that they both would have died and been eaten by coyotes and buzzards. 

Good Job! Great video! Glad to live where I can still read commits like the one from Charles. No matter how wrong he is entitled to his opinion

I would venture to say that Charles doesn't know the one true God, Jesus Christ, and therefore plays god himself in his own life each and everday instead of surrendering his life to Christ, to escape the flames of torment for eternity and enjoy paradise in Heaven. Which would make him a hypocrite for posting that. We all play god in some form or fashion, especially when we don't submit to God's will in our lives.

With Love,

Jason

Charles,

Next time when you see your family suffering from disease or pain, don't take them to hospital and let them suffer and see what God wants to do with them.  That's the true believer of natural selection.

If God wanted to get those deers to fight to death, he could have simply let him miss his shot.  Or, maybe him saving those deers was a way of natural thing supposed to happen that day.  I don't know.  Who cares?

Please, don't ruin somebody's good day and good will for your own ego-sadistic and judgemental view of world.  No matter what somebody may think, good respectul people do whatever they can to help others and improve the situation.

BTW, great shot!

Well, i think it's clear that this charles guy is a bit jealous of the outstanding shot made by this man. Charles, you probably can't shoot worth a crap ya tree hugger! If you are a hunter, i bet the other people on your hunting lease love listening to you all hunting season LOL! You wouldn't last long where I come from.

Heck of a shot Bro!!!!!! Good work!

rutman/charles johnson has confused me.   he said that the natural process was interupted and to think of the food that could have been provided for a local food bank?   maybe i'm crazy but i figure the natural process would have been to leave them alone and at least one of them would have ended up buzzard bait not on a food bank food line for a bunch o obama supporters.  i think he did the right thing and freed the animals so they could live longer and breed and make more deer for the food bank.

Great video! Thank you for sharing!

Ruttman would probably leave a deer caught in the fence instead of cutting the top wire to free it.  Where is he from?  The gunman never said a word about his shooting ability.  He saved a couple of nice bucks to breed and make more.

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Great shot!!  Sorry Charles is taking aware your deserved thunder.  That's why people like him make those kinds of comments, to turn things their direction.  This is still a free country, people can take up their arms and shoot their own food!!  You don't need to rely on a food bank to sustain you.  Trust in God and use the resources He gave us (including common sense, is that still around?)  If you would have killed one or both of the bucks, he would have complained about that.  He is just wanting attention.  Pray that he never is in the woods with you!  Hunting season is upon us, good luck to all!!

Great shot, to say nothing of a humane act, by a responsible hunter and sportsman!

Very nice shot using the skills the Lord gave you ....and thank you Charles for responding the the urge the Lord passed on to you to respond to this video...The Lord works in mysterious ways and allows his children to minister to those who need his guidance in a variety of ways.  No matter how you feel about this video or all the discussion it has caused us to talk about the Lord and that can never be a bad thing. 

Dear Ruttman,

Did you ever consider for one second that humans are part of nature and natural selection????  I really am disappointed in fellow hunter that do not consider themselves as part of nature.  We are not visitors from another planet.

Let's help natural selection. Stop supporting Food banks for Obamas supportors

I agree with ZYANDARR Charles! Next time ilness strikes your family, just let nature take it's course. The future might find you without a family, or the family may find themselves without YOU!

How do you know God didn't place that man there to save those bucks? You have a direct line to him?

And how were these deer gonna find themselves in a food bank? They gonna waller each other right down there and in the door, or are folks just gonna pick up the dead rotted carcasses and haul them to the food bank for consumption?

Think, Obama fan, think!!!

Let's take it easy on old Charles...sometimes the 'Obama fog' lies a little heavy on one's eyes.  And, let's hope the Lord takes the blinders off them too.

your a man of God? all you did was slam this guy for saveing two of Gods creatures, not very christian like in my book....where i come from your just a great big ASS!!!!

Ruttman,

maybe God put Charles there at that exact time to do HIS biddding.

Here's the other side of the spectrum.  My guess is that they locked-up the day before and this was taken sometime the next day.  One of the bucks died and it looks like the other living deer was the one the coyotes went after.  Even if the guys that took this video were able to get them apart I don't know whether this buck would have made it. 

To let this lind of thing happen to an animal when you had the opportunity to free it would be nothing short of cruel to me.

 HOORAH!!! KUDOS to Randy for doing such a great job. I must say I was shocked to see a sportsmen presented with two trophy bucks to pick from and what did he do? Not only did he save BOTH their lives but he let them BOTH go. Didn't chose to take the easy route and just shoot the bigger one for himself; its like that thought didn't even cross his mind. He did the humane and most unselfish thing, puting his OWN interests last.

  THIS, is the kinda miraculous thing that hunting and being in nature is all about. If all the tree-huggers and animal activists out there who look down on hunters, could see this video, perhaps they wuld have more respect for us hunters.